ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses the system of demonstrative adjectives and pronouns found in the dialect of South Zeal, a village on the northern edge of Dartmoor. The system would operate in all positions where Standard English would show either a third person plural personal pronoun, or a plural demonstrative pronoun. The normal singular pronouns are either the simple forms or the 'second compounds', the 'first compounds' being most unusual. In the plural of the adjective, the simple forms are much more frequent than their equivalent 'first compounds', whereas in the plural of the pronoun, there is apparently only the one form. The first form is used in all stressed positions and as unstressed subject except in inverted Q-forms; the second is used as the unstressed non-subject, and as the unstressed subject in inverted Q-forms. The chapter looks at the actual forms found in the dialect.